Yellowstone roads closed!

valhalla360 wrote:

afidel wrote:
It'll depend on what bridges were taken out, Yellowstone River bridge was slated to take 3 years to replace and that was with funding secured and a contractor lined up. I hope no major bridges were taken out but the flooding is the worst on record, beating the 1918 flood by many feet on several gauges. Seeing the Carbella Bridge washed away gives some idea of the conditions being faced in the area.

Long construction times are typically related to maintenance of traffic. If you have to keep traffic flowing, you have to do things in multiple stages and spend a ton of time on stuff that isn't actually rebuilding.

Let the contractor shut everything down completely and a bridge replacement can be 2-3 months.

In an emergency, there are ways around the normal approval rules.

This summer may have significant access limitations but I'd be willing to bet by spring/summer 2023, all the main roads are back open.

2 to 3 months? Ever been involved in building one? You would ne lucky to pop in a two lane precast box culvert in 2=3 months that carries a 3' wide brook. Actually you would not have all the required parts and pieces in 2=3 months if you already had the design and permitting, which usually takes a year or longer, typically a lot longer than that. You have to have a study done on the impact to the hairy chested nutscratcher. Then you have all the other bureaucratic red tape and all the union deals that have to be made with gubmints involved.

We are 9 weeks behind schedule on floor pours for a certain internet retailers distribution center who will remain nameless, because we can't get concrete timely. No shortage of cement, aggregate, and water. It's a shortage of truck drivers. So much so we looked into setting up a portable plant but even with money being no object per Jeff, that can not be pulled together at present in any sort of reasonable time, so we wait.

Bridges in 2-3 months? Come on man.